Football Persuasive Speech

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How many football games have you been to or seen on TV where at least one player has laid on the ground waiting for the trainer to come tend to their injury? According to Wake Forest Baptist Health, forty-seven percent of football players in America are injured every year. I would like to share with you why full contact football should not be played in or before high school. Full contact football should be banned for high school and younger athletes. Football related concussions take a toll on underdeveloped brains. About 52,000 people die each year from a sports related brain injury, claims Wake Forest Baptist Health. The growing brain doesn’t use as much space in the skull making it easier to injure the brain. The younger they are during …show more content…

This study proved that it only to ten to fifteen hard hits to notice physical changes to their brain and six months after the end of the season imaging scans still showed mild brain injury in half the players. With these documented scans I think that the concussion symptoms can appear very quickly if you do this on a daily basis. Also I believe they can stick around for your entire life and could gradually get worse. As you can see there are many problems with concussions and how many happen a year. They sure do take a toll on our still developing brains. The most important thing about playing football is safety, and some items we use for safety are not what they’ve cracked up to be. There is virtually no difference in the safety of different brands who say they are better than the next. It turns out all helmet brands provide the same amount of protection in some way. Sdfsdfsdf repeated twelve mile per hour impact with ten popular helmet brands and they all only cut the concussion risk by twenty percent. If even the “best protection” helmet band was the same as all the others I believe that something has to be done with the safety and protection against

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